Top on the city’s list is Times Square, where millions are expected to converge for the millennium celebration. The city plans to spend $46 million to make it safer for pedestrians and bikers to make their way through Times Square and Wall Street, across the Brooklyn Bridge and along other busy arteries.

Top on the city’s list is Times Square, where millions are expected to converge for the millennium celebration.

“The Times Square revival is working. But there are crowds and crowds of people we have to provide for,” said Brendan Sexton, head of the Times Square Business Improvement District.

To meet the area’s needs, the Giuliani administration has drafted a Midtown pedestrian plan – obtained by The Post – that calls for:

*Widening sidewalks and street corners near the Port Authority bus terminal and in Times Square, particularly north and south of the so-called Bow Tie, where Seventh Avenue and Broadway intersect at 45th Street.

*Giving pedestrians more time to cross the Bow Tie during pre-theater hours and at the bus terminal during evening rush hour.

*Prohibiting turns onto Broadway between West 44th and West 47th streets and restricting non-essential auto traffic from entering Broadway from other streets.

The Times Square proposal, developed jointly by the city Planning and Transportation departments, will undergo further analysis before any charges are made, Sexton said.

He added that he was confident many of the improvements would be implemented, though not necessarily in time for New Year’s 2000.

But before the new year, Department of Transportation spokesman Mark Patterson said, streets will be resurfaced and signs replaced with international crosswalk signals that flash a human figure for “Go” and a red hand for “Stop.”

Among the proposals included in plans for a Wall Street area overhaul are:

*Making Wall Street one-way eastbound between South and Water streets.

*Eliminating 30 metered parking spaces on Wall Street to permit widening sidewalks near Water and South streets. Other streets in the financial district would get similar face lifts.

Another major project under consideration is construction of a pedestrian link between the Brooklyn Bridge promenade and Cadman Plaza on the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

It would enable cyclists and pedestrians to avoid the dangerous intersection of Adams and Tillary streets – one of the city’s top accident sites.

Safety advocates hailed the proposed fixes.

“These are excellent improvements. It will be easier for pedestrians to get around,” said John Kaehny, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a pro-pedestrian, pro-cycling group.

The city also is seeking federal aid to make road improvements that would reduce accidents at Grand Army Plaza near Prospect Park in Brooklyn – the top crash spot in the city last year – and other dangerous sites.

As part of its safety initiative, the city also plans to improve walkways near a number of busy subway stations, including Queens Plaza and Jamaica Center.